Voltaire

We can't offer up California as a new Palestinian homeland until after we build a wall to prevent Californians from leaving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLHOTwsLjSs&t=29 Next time save your b*tching about the officials for a time when they actually make a mistake.

The Chinese have a good work ethic and most are fed up with the country. While I'm on the topic, I go to the Asian market locally for obvious reasons (a Chinese wife that makes a lot of Chinese food). They distribute two Chinese language newspapers there for free, one the Epoch Times, rips China to shreds regularly whereas the other always kisses their ass.

Wordle 905 3/6 🟨 🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Only word I saw but didn't spend much time thinking up other options.

Yeah, Nick Foles was a terrible signing.

Well, no. They hit a funk but they got it straightened out. They're likely to roll through the NFC playoffs, then see who comes out of the AFC.

Looks like the 9ers year. Christmas will be epic when the best two teams in each conference's regular season clash.

They owe the Lions about a mile and a half in false start and holding penalties.

All three of those teams were really good, and had their starting QBs at the time. Despite lowing their QBs all have still remained above .500

They're getting whooped badly in back-to-back games but they're getting whopped by great teams. They still have Ws from the Chiefs, Dolphins, Bills, and the earlier Dallas game under their belts.

If Dallas wins, Philly still holds the tiebreaker right?

Almost feels like Philly needs to get a TD here.

Actually, no. Even though it was prime time, I forget the game was on but I heard good things.

(((shudder))) 52 is the Same age as me and he's a former player on my FF team. RIP

Green Bay has had their fair shar of injuries. They really have improved markedly since around week seven or so.

Lock is playing acceptably well but they need more than he can give them against a team this good.

It's been a fun ride for the Lions but all the missing starters on defense takes its toll. That plus Goff turning the ball over so much lately, going into the year he'd had a long streak of passes without an interception, well once broken, it's not come close to being reestablished and has mixed in fumbles as well. When the season started, I thought going 11-6, winning the division, and a home playoff game would be about what to expect. By week seven, I'd gotten Super Bowl aspirations, but ever since the Chargers game, the string of injuries on defense have just mounted as have the turnovers and its become clear they're not a contender. We're back to settling for 11-6, winning the division and a home playoff game but this team isn't ready for the next step and Both Philly and SF are much better. It'll be challenge enough to hold off Green Bay and Minnesota.

This is what you're upset with him for wanting removed from school libraries. Know that the book is illustrated. Now that you know the context of what he's talking about, do you still feel he has no point in wanting to make it unavailable to children in a school library? Or would you agree that such a book should not be available in a school library?

You were on a roll until the last sentence. I don't want to kill leftoids. I just want them to live happy and fulfilling lives far away from us, dodging drugged out zombie trannies and stepping around piles of sh*t, getting mugged by illegal aliens in crime-ridden blue state paradises with nice weather, power outages on days when the wind doesn't blow, and burned out police stations.

What's left of the Lions defense is awful and Justin Fields shredded them on the first drive. He made it look easy. Both injuries and defensive coordinator are the problem. Offense needs to carry the team. Have a hole on the O-Line though.

No, Skokie was not a right wing cause but any taint of "Nazis" or KKK makes the decent conservative right cut bait and head for the hills. See Nick Fuentes (we'll get back to him), David Duke, the non-KKK faction of Charlottesville protesters that were only there to voice opposition to the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, Steve King, Alex Jones, the Q-Anon or Pizzagate conspiracy people. You can go too far to the right and be persona-non-grata at conservative events. The left doesn't have this issue, well maybe that's finally changing with the emergence of the Hamas terrorist sympathizers in the last month. Communism has gone mainstream, there are a lot of Che Guevara t-shirts out there. I noticed that Al Sharpton ran for president, the BLM still all live in mansions, that Anthony Anderson doesn't have any problem finding work in Hollywood and that Ibrahim X Kendi still has his foundation at Boston College despite both being a flaming racist. Trannies are displacing women in sports competitions with the tacit approval of most feminists while a movie that pokes fun of that phenomenon is banned from theatres. ----- Anyway.... your question of where the ACLU could be helpful on First Amendment protections but is not. Well. Nick Fuentes is on a no-fly list, obviously singled out for his beliefs. These January 6th protestors that never assaulted any officers nor damaged any property, the FBI investigating school board parents and conservative Catholics, government pressure on Big Tech to sensor, the harassment and overzealous removal of anti-abortion protestors. Any number of things, were they treated even-handedly would maybe restore faith that the ACLU still cared about first amendment prtotections.

Those Skokie Nazi marchers are/were repugnant to all decent people of conscious, including their ACLU lawyer, who saw their rights being undermined and went to bat for them as a matter of first amendment principal. Were I a fake lawyer rather than a fake astronaut, I would not have wanted to take the case to defend them, although I do agree that they have a right to a legal defense and that someone should. Somebody else. That the ACLU did so is commendable and further that it was a Jewish lawyer, from a population that has a worse history with Nazis than any other, was particularly remarkable and I've always respected the guy for it. Obviously the man is an ACLU legend as well as committed liberal. At his lifetime award ceremony he had some interesting insight into the organization: worth noting: Here are the cases the ACLU highlight for end of year 2023. No doubt you support most all of them because you are a left winger and everything here is in your wheelhouse anyways. No doubt you support them for those reasons. I just want to alert you to the fact that they only do left wing causes anymore and that any charade of even-handedness is completely absent. This NRA case may well be one of the last ones. https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/2023-aclu-our-year-in-stories-eoy-moments The cut-and-paste Goldberger celebratory luncheon snip is from the NYTimes article I linked above. If you want to read the full thing, here it is again: https://archive.is/deO59

"Over the years" isn't today. The ACLU you're 'talking about is dead. Whatever was great about them, meaning free speech advocacy, is ending with the old timers exiting. The hardcore leftoids have taken over and this NRA case is the swan song, it will be the last vestigial case of the former ACLU. The free speech faction has lost control of the organization to the activist faction. Please check and see if I'm exaggerating and if I'm not. update your talking points.

Well, if they get to that point, they won't have had a primary. The Democratic Party would have a hard time coming together to back a non-Biden candidate since they are an umbrella political organization housing a wide collection of different flavored turd factions all vying for power: the insider crony crooks, Communists, terrorist sympathizers, race hustlers, feminists, degenerate perverts, cop-haters, environmental fanatics, work-averse human lumps, and self-hating unamerican human scum. So, things would be messy. Avoiding their constituencies and having the party elders appoint a candidate may not go over very well.

This NRA case is the one vestigial counter-example that was mentioned in the article I linked. It may well be the last hurrah for the old timer free speech defenders in the organization. The younger member in the organization are leftoid activists who intend to hollow it out.